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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 2, Fable 6</span><span class="fp-text">L'AIGLE ET LA CORNEILLE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber II, Fabula VI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">AQUILA ET CORNIX</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Contre les puissants on n'est jamais assez protégé,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais, qu'un méchant leur donne encore des conseils,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">la force et la malice renversent tout ce qu'elles attaquent.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Contra potentes nemo est <span class="fp-correction" title="monitus  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">munitus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="munitus  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">monitus</span></span> satis ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">si vero accessit consiliator maleficus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">vis et nequitia quicquid oppugnant ruit.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un aigle enlevait en l'air une Tortue,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui, cachée sous sa maison d'écaille,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ne courait aucun danger.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Une Corneille survint, et en voltigeant autour de l'Aigle, lui dit&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Vous tenez dans vos serres une proie excellente ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais si je ne vous montre ce qu'il faut en faire,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">vous vous fatiguerez inutilement de ce lourd fardeau.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'Aigle promet une part de la prise et laisser tomber</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">du haut des airs la Tortue sur un rocher, pour briser sa dure écaille,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il leur sera facile alors de s'en rassasier.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'Aigle, persuadé par de si bons avis, obéit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et partagea ensuite libéralement avec sa conseillère.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ainsi celle que protégeait tant la nature,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">trop faible contre deux, périt misérablement.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aquila in <span class="fp-correction" title="sulime  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">sublime</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="sublime  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sulime</span></span> sustulit testudinem.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quae cum abdidisset cornea corpus domo</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec ullo pacto laedi <span class="fp-correction" title="possit  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">posset</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="posset  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">possit</span></span> condita,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">venit per auras cornix et propter volans&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Opimam sane praedam rapuisti unguibus ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sed nisi monstraro quid sit faciendum tibi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">gravi nequiquam te lassabit pondere.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Promissa parte suadet ut scopulum super</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">altis ab astris duram inlidat corticem,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qua comminuta facile vescatur cibo.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n88/mode/1up">p.25</a>]</span> Inducta verbis aquila monitis paruit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">simul et <span class="fp-correction" title="magistre  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">magistrae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="magistrae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">magistre</span></span> large divisit dapem.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sic tuta <span class="fp-correction" title="que  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">que</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="nature  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">naturae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="naturae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">nature</span></span> fuerat munere,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">impar duabus occidit tristi nece.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/tibere-et-lintendant.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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